Route Description:

Ramnicu Valcea- Curtea de Arges- Vidraru- Balea Cascada- Cartisoara- Avrig- Sibiu- Cisnadie- Sadu- Brezoi- Voineasa- Calimanesti- Ramnicu Valcea

The route combines a road parcurgearea millennial (Olt Valley) by crossing the Carpathians on the road that connects the northern Transfagarasan southern Transylvania and Wallachia.

Ramnicu Valcea: city situated on the middle of the Olt county of Valcea county. Much older settlement, documentary mentioned in 1338. Valcea Village Museum (Bujoreni) Anton Pann Memorial House, monuments of architecture (c. sixteenth century); museum complex dedicated to 1848 (Trojan hill).Surroundings: Large mines spa resorts, Calimanesti-Caciulata, Olanesti, Govora.

Cartisoara: valley village located on the same nume.Muzeu Memorial, Badea Cartan.”

Balea Cascada: tourist area – cottage (1234m. another.) ski runs, lift up to Balea Lake Chalet (2034m. another.). Surroundings: Hunting tips of Buteanu (2507m. another.) Podragul (2456m. another.) Podragul Capra and lakes, chalets Negoiu (1546m. another.) And Podragul (2136m. another.).

Vidrarul: tourist area of great interest in following the construction of hydropower complex ka Arges sources. Reservoir, dam, and the statue,”Electricity, Cumpana cabin, Valley to fish. Surroundings: Arges keys, the city of Poienari (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries).

Curtea de Arges: city situated on the upper Arges. Princely residence in the century. XIII, the second citadel of Romanian Country (1350-1396). Princely Court (thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, ruins), monuments of architecture (XIII-XVIII century) Manole’s fountain. Surroundings: Bradetu (spa, 685m. Another., Sfectiunilor indicated in treating musculoskeletal, digestive tract, in covalescente).

Avrig: village located on the Olt Valley. Castle (ruins), a museum, Gheorghe Lazar”; museum of ethnography, folk weaving and sewing school, castle Brukenthal (XVIII). Surroundings: Neamt Poiana cabins, 706m. another., Barcaciu-1550m. another. , Negoiu-1546 m alr., Suru-2282m peak. another.; Avrig Lake-2011m. another.

Sibiu city situated on the banks Cibin, capital of Sibiu. Remnants of Neolithic, Dacian-Romanian Cedonia hypothetical settlement, this documentary in the Middle Ages, in 1192. Medieval (thirteenth century XVIII, vestiges) Stairs Passage, the Liars Bridge (XIX) Brukenthal, the oldest in the country (1817) Exhibition on the history of the city (Council Tower, 1588) Exhibition of Arms and hunting trophies, unique in the country, monuments of architecture (XIII-XIX century) popular techniques Museum (in Grove).

Cisnadie: city, situated in the foothills Cibin settlement documentary mentioned in 1204. Medioval architectural ensemble (XIII-XVIII century), museum, monument of Romanesque architecture, the oldest in the country (1223, Cisnadioara).

Sadu: village situated on the river with the same name. Mine probably around 1100, attested in 1383. The first hydropower in the country (1897) Sadu River. Surroundings: chalets Preajba-1630m. another, Gatu Aries-1175m. another.

Brezoi: city situated at the mouth of the River Lotru. Ancient Forest Center. Wooden Architecture (XVIII-XIX) the region.

Voineasa: village situated in the valley Lotru. Local climatic-620m. another.

Calimanesti: city located on the Olt Valley, permanent spa complex (Calimanesti-Caciulata-Cozia) – 260m. .- otherwise indicated in the treatment of digestive tract, kidney, locomotion, Monuments of architecture.

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